Rep. Barbara Mikulski was supposed to have nominated Sen. Edward Kennedy for President on Wednesday. After getting over her shock when he withdrew, she introduced him before he addressed the convention on Tuesday night. After he dropped out, she said she felt "like a bride who gets to the altar with a dashing bridegroom, and then he says, ‘Let's wait a few years’." She told the other Kennedy backers, "It's all right if you want to cry your eyes out."

The convention was awash with Kennedy signs after his speech on "economic justice."